Two film studios will use GPT-5 and other OpenAI models to produce an animated movie, the Wall Street Journal reported late Sunday.
The picture, “Critterz,” is set to debut next May at the Cannes Film Festival. Production has reportedly already begun.
The film is a collaboration between London-based Vertigo Films and Culver City, California-based Native Foreign. The companies will hire artists to draw the sketches that are set to form the basis of the movie. According to the Journal, those sketches will be turned into scenes using multiple OpenAI models including GPT-5 and unspecified image generation algorithms.
GPT-5 is the artificial intelligence system that powers ChatGPT. It comprises several large language models that can generate text and analyze information in images. ChatGPT’s image generation feature is powered by a different AI model, gpt-image-1, that OpenAI debuted in April.
It’s unclear whether the film crew will also use the AI provider’s Sora video generation model. Launched earlier this year, Sora is capable of generating clips up to one minute in length. The version that OpenAI offers to customers can only output videos up to 20 seconds in length.
Sora can’t generate a full-length movie on its own, but it could potentially lend itself to previsualization. This is a stage of the film production workflow in which artists create a simple animated representation of a scene. The director can use the sequence to plan details such as the camera angle.
In theory, the film crew could also use Sora to generate complete scenes. Manually polishing and then stitching together 20-second clips may be faster than producing everything from scratch. However, it’s unclear whether Sora can make the individual scenes it generates sufficiently consistent with one another for that approach to work.
According to the Journal, the film studios behind the project plan to start casting voice actors in the coming weeks. The project has a budget of under $30 million, a fraction of what feature-length animated movies usually cost to produce. The film crew hopes to complete the movie in nine months instead of the several years that would normally be required.
If the project is successful, it could help Sora gain traction among media and entertainment companies. A few months ago, OpenAI screened several Sora-generated short films in a Los Angeles theater to showcase the model’s capabilities. It earlier held a similar event in New York and reportedly plans to host another in Tokyo down the road.
OpenAI faces competition from Google LLC and Runway AI Inc., a well-funded developer of video generation models. In June, Runway partnered with AMC Networks Inc. to help its artists design special effects faster. It earlier inked a deal to develop a custom AI model trained on Lionsgate’s film catalog.
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